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Liselotte K. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3039) interviewed by Fay Davis,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-3039

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Liselotte K., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1918. She describes her affluent childhood; a close, extended family; antisemitism in school; educating herself about Judaism; erosion of relationships with non-Jews after the Nuremberg laws; expulsion from school; vacationing in Germany; working in a department store; nurses training at a Jewish hospital; viewing the destruction after Kristallnacht; applying through Bloomsbury House to emigrate to England; moving to Midlands, England in 1939; learning of her parents' deportation to Theresienstadt and their subsequent death; and emigrating to Canada. Mrs. K. discusses her naivete concerning the pending danger prior to her emigration.
Author/Creator: K., Liselotte, 1918-
Published: Vancouver, B.C. : Vancouver Holocaust Centre Society, 1983
Interview Date: June 22, 1983.
Locale: Germany
Berlin (Germany)
Midlands (England)
Cite As: Liselotte K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3039). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Davis, Fay, interviewer.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (56 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Antisemitism Prewar.
Nuremberg laws.
Crystal Night, 1938.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Germany. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Citizenship--Germany. Jews--Migrations. Jewish refugees. Germany. Berlin (Germany) Kristallnacht, 1938. Midlands (England) Oral histories (document genres) K., Liselotte,--1918-

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
Special Collection: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

Link to Yale University Library Catalog:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4290125
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:31:00
This page:: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4290125

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